International Glaucoma Association Professor of Ophthalmology for Glaucoma & Allied Studies
Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, and Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK
David Garway-Heath is currently President of the European Glaucoma Society. In addition to his clinical work, he leads research in visual assessment and imaging at the Biomedical Research Centre of the UK National Institute for Health Research. The ‘Garway-Heath map’ that he developed has contributed to the understanding of structure- function relationship in glaucoma and the ‘Moorfields Regression Analysis’, a diagnostic algorithm that he developed for the HRT, has led to the widespread use of imaging in glaucoma management. He conducted the first randomized placebo-controlled trial to provide evidence for visual field preservation with an IOP-lowering drug, and the study design he used for the trial enabled a considerable reduction in the period needed to identify treatment effects.
Professor Garway-Heath has been recipient of several awards and has been consecutively cited as one of the 100 most influential people in ophthalmology worldwide in The Ophthalmologist magazine’s power list. He is also Vice President of the Imaging and Perimetry Society, Chair of the Membership Committee of the Glaucoma Research Society, and Workstream Lead for the design of the new Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology centre.
